Rudolph Rummel Quotes

• The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.

  Rudolph Rummel

  War, Government, Desire

  "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, pp. 1-2, 1994.

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• [Durante el siglo XX] ... 170 millones de hombres, mujeres y niños han sido fusilados, golpeados, torturados, acuchillados, quemados, muertos de hambre, congelados, aplastados o asesinados trabajando; enterrados vivos, ahogados, ahorcados, bombardeados o asesinados de cualquier otra de las innumerables formas en que los gobiernos han infligido la muerte a ciudadanos y extranjeros desarmados e indefensos.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Niños, Hombres, Libertad

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• Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Absolute Power, Absolutes

  "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, 1944.

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• El poder político concentrado es lo más peligroso de la tierra.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Political, Liberty, Earth

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

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  Government, Political, Having Fun

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Consistency

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• We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

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  War, Liberty, Spheres

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

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  Trust, People, Liberty

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

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  Freedom, Mean, Democracy

  "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, p. 27, 1994.

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• To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.

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  Our World, Self, Understanding

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